What's stored, what's sent, what isn't.

ScrubShot is a Mac screenshot app that runs on your machine. The only things it sends over the network are license checks (to start and validate your trial or license) and an anonymous check for the latest version. Your screenshots, and everything you scrub out of them, never leave your Mac.

There is no analytics, no telemetry, and no third-party tracking of any kind. Because the app does not collect or transmit personal data, there is very little for this policy to cover. The points below spell out exactly what happens on your device.

When you take a capture, ScrubShot saves the image to a folder in your own Pictures directory (~/Pictures/ScrubShot). You can also copy an image to the clipboard. These files belong to you and live only on your Mac. ScrubShot never uploads them.

When you scrub part of an image, the affected pixels are rewritten in the file itself. The original detail is not stored anywhere, hidden or otherwise, so a scrubbed screenshot cannot be un-scrubbed.

ScrubShot makes two kinds of network call, and neither involves your screenshots. License checks: to start your free trial and to validate your trial or license, it talks to my license backend, sending a hashed identifier for your Mac, your machine name, and (once you buy) your license key. The backend is hosted by Supabase, a US company acting as a data processor for me. No screenshots, no analytics, nothing else.

Update check: when you open Settings, it asks www.scrubshot.com for the latest version number so it can tell you whether an update is available. Capturing, scrubbing and saving all happen locally on your Mac, and your images are never sent anywhere.

If a future version ever needs to add a network call, I will describe it on this page before it ships, and call it out in the release notes for the version that introduces it.

On first run, ScrubShot asks for two system permissions. Screen Recording, so it can capture what is on your screen when you press the shortcut. Accessibility, so the keyboard shortcut can work across the whole system rather than only inside one app.

Both can be revoked at any time in System Settings, under Privacy & Security. These grants stay on your Mac; ScrubShot does not report whether you have given or withdrawn them.

I do not run analytics. ScrubShot ships without Sentry, Firebase, PostHog, Mixpanel, Amplitude, or any of the usual suspects. There are no tracking pixels, no ad SDKs, no behavioral profiling, and no automatic crash reporters phoning home. I do not sell or share your data, and the only thing collected off your device is the license record described above.

Under UK and EU data protection law you have the right to access, correct, or delete any personal data I hold about you. In ScrubShot's case there is very little: a license record (your license key, a hashed machine identifier, your machine name, and activation and expiry timestamps), used only to run trial and license checks. To exercise any of these rights, get in touch through the contact page and I'll respond within thirty days.

Your screenshots are yours to manage. To remove them, delete the files from your Pictures folder on your Mac.

ScrubShot is not marketed to children, and because it collects no data from anyone, it collects none from children either.

When this policy changes, I will update the "last updated" date at the top of the page. Anything meaningful, such as a new network call or a change to what is stored, will also be noted in the release notes for the version that introduces it.

Questions about this policy, or anything that reads oddly on this page, can be raised through the contact page.